Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Nov 2005 23:37:43 +0100 | From | "Tue, 8 Nov 2005 23:37:43 +0100" <> | Subject | Re: 3D video card recommendations |
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El Tue, 8 Nov 2005 23:08:53 +0100, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> escribió:
> I'd rather not count the drivers that have dropped out of open source > operating systems due to bit rot. If there is no maintainer, the > hardware will become useless sooner or later. With Linux's rapidly > changing "moving target" 2.6.X I'd call it sooner rather than later. > > OSS drivers are good iff there is a maintainer - IOW: to the user, the > maintainer makes the difference, not the driver being open source.
You're right - but the existence of a unmaintained open source driver makes possible and easier to write a maintained driver. Which is important, too - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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